Protein in the vegetarian diet
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1. Is the vegetarian diet safe?
According to the American Dietetic Association and the Polish Ministry of Health, a properly balanced vegetarian diet is completely safe for health, meets nutritional requirements at every stage of human life and can provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are suitable for people at all stages of life, including pregnancy and lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence and for athletes.2. Protein is the most controversial ingredient in the vegetarian diet
Protein is made up of amino acids. In order for our body to function properly, we need to supply all 20 of them: 8 exogenous acids, which the body cannot synthesize, and must be supplied in a ready-to-eat form, and 12 end-products, which can be synthesized from our other meat-free diet, and the controversy that it causes. Protein consists of amino acid.3. Is it any way to avoid protein deficiencies when you're a vegetarian?
Specialists recommend removing meat products from our diet for every 2,000 calories we supply to our body: 1 cup of cooked legumes such as peas, beans, lentils, celery, soybeans; 1.5 cups of cooking cereal, which we count as greens, legumes, tongue-in-cheek, whole grain rice. 3 glasses of ready-made vegetables, including half a cup of the cabbage family, One cup of raw vegetable soup, such as celery beans and soybean, and 2 cups, including whole grains, whole vegetables and legumes.